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The Bloodline Trilogy concludes with book three, BLOOD & SOUL. Emma Beckett has an idyllic childhood in the small Northern California town of Mendocino, only child of Cabral and Darcy Beckett. Tall and palely blonde, unlike her small, dark-haired parents, Emma occasionally wonders if she was adopted. However, the unconditional love of her parents was the one aspect of her upbringing she never lost faith in, not even when the darkness of her true past threatened to overtake her.

The Bloodline Trilogy continues with book two, BLOODLUST. Kate Grady comes from a happy home, never knowing fear or insecurity. Thanks to her extraordinary parents, Pim Grady and Noel Gatsby, her childhood is full of wonder and unconditional love. However, she soon realizes she possesses special powers which allow her to bend others to her will. At first, she uses her newfound abilities wisely. She prevents a gang of bullies from raping and beating a young girl, and then makes them pay the ultimate price for their brutal acts.

The Bloodline Trilogy begins with BLOODFROST. Old before her time and afflicted with a myriad of medical problems, Noel Gatsby retreats into her "wishful-thinking" dreams every night. Desperate to escape the circumstances of her life, she imagines a world where all of her pain and suffering stops, to be replaced by the vigorous health of her youth. Yet each morning she awakens to the misery of her real existence, consumed by pain and depression.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book eight, MEGAN'S LEGACY. A serial killer is on the loose in Larkin City, targeting women with long, blonde hair . . . Liam Larkin develops a new hotel and winery to attract tourists. He hires Sommelier Petra Fortescue-Pemberton to organize sophisticated wine-tasting parties, finding love where he least expects it.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book seven, THE TWILIGHT. Shannon Larkin and Scott Page are happy in their long marriage, but a tragic loss forces her to delve into the past in order to face ugly truths about her husband. Devastated, Shannon retreats into her own solitary world. A stranger brings her out of self-imposed exile and shows her the beauty of unconditional love exists after all. Although hurt and disillusioned by Scott's secret life, Angie Page finds surprising happiness as a result of her father's duplicity.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book six, HEARTS DESIRES. Brose Larkin finds himself falling in love with a local "tomboy" who bests him at every turn. Despite having known her since high school, she is the antithesis of his ideal woman in her simple attire and direct manner. Brose knows he has met his ultimate match in Bridget Gallagher.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book five, THE KEEPER'S JOURNAL. Shannon Larkin is forced to confront demons from her past. Her yearly visit to Mike Sullivan's gravesite strains her marriage to Scott Page, but she finds herself unable and unwilling to forget Mike's memory. Shannon's daughter Angela Page finds love with her new boss Tom Cimarelli, a New York City newspaper editor.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book four, ENTHRALLMENT. Wary after a miserable marriage to the beautiful but empty Marianne Chamberlain, Sean Larkin finds new love with Shannon's best friend, Dana Maitland. Their marriage yields another set of twins, Derek and Diana, and provides Sean and Marianne's son Brose with a happy home.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book three, THE TWAIN SHALL MEET. Shannon Larkin and Mike Sullivan are presumably unaware of the long connection between their two families. Yet their love affair seems destined to follow the same tragic path as the one forged by their mutual ancestors, Colm Sullivan and Molly Larkin.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book two, QUIXOTIC CROSSINGS. After the death of family patriarch John Larkin in 1926, the strains of madness filter their way into second and third generations of the irrevocably entangled Larkin and Sullivan families. Colm and Molly's grandson Jean-Claude Sullivan finds his life driven by greed and perversely tainted pleasures, while Molly's coldly-calculating nephew Patrick Larkin propels the family business to impressive heights as he fosters a new generation with his wife Colleen McGarren.

The Collective Obsessions Saga begins in 1865 when John Larkin emigrates from Ireland to America and settles his self-named township in Maine. John builds a wealthy empire and grand estate, becoming one of the richest merchants on the Eastern Seaboard. Hiding behind the wealth and social position are quirky English servants, the effervescent family chef Claude Mondoux, John's paranoid-alcoholic wife Anne, their steadfast son Roderick and their mercurial daughter Mary Margaret, also affectionately known as Molly.

Newly-widowed Beth Mills accepts an outpouring of sympathy from her community after a freak mining accident takes the life of her husband, Aaron. Unbeknownst to anyone, she is secretly delighted that her cruel husband is lost to her, but never expects his vicious ghost to return and haunt her in more ways than one.

Glinhaven Monastery drips with sinister eeriness, especially at night when bone-chilling fog rolls in from churning North Shore sea waters. The centuries-old stone structure appears as a hulking ghost in the mist, its walls bloated with history and unspeakable secrets. Yellow light from carriage-style lamps intensify the monastery's forbidding effect, the black-squared globes positioned in four-foot intervals on massive walls which surround the holy nucleus, gazed upon in deadly fear by residents of Glinhaven Village.

Struggling artist Luca Wolfe lives in a dilapidated warehouse loft in SoHo, New York, barely eking out a living from sales of his work. One night he begins to paint a reproduction of art from the past, but becomes too inebriated to continue. When he awakens, he finds the painting complete, but unlike the creation he began the night before.

A young girl is shaped by horrific events which change her life forever. After Ava's brother and parents are killed by British soldiers, she vows to avenge their deaths as she picks up the pieces of her shattered world. Before she can move on, Ava falls in love with handsome nobleman David Lancaster, eldest son of a belted Earl. Their relationship ends dramatically when his family refuses to accept her. Afterward, Ava sets her life on a course of violent revenge in the name of political justice with her childhood friend, Tim O'Casey.

The Second Tour is a Vietnam War novel based on the author's personal experience as a low-level grunt in the Marine Corps. Told as contemporary experimental fiction, it's the story of a murdered Vietnamese girl who comes back to haunt the narrator.

The brightest victories often lie in the darkest places. The normal ordinary life of Sheila Leclaire, an investment banker, takes a turn in Sommerville, Virginia as she is haunted by voices. In overcoming her condition, she traces the root of her illness—a childhood secret that she cannot remember.

Requiem, Changing Times by R J Parker

In this Best Book Award-Winning Novel, thirty-year old Kate Grace is a successful lifestyle writer for a popular magazine in New York City. She has everything she could ever want -- a loving family, friends, and the man of her dreams. But when several unforeseen events threaten to upend her world, a friend comes to the rescue, offering Kate respite to mend her broken heart in the ancient, magic paradise that is Hanalei, Kauai. On the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, she ends up finding more than she bargained for - new life, new love, and synchronicities sent from beyond.

When I Was a Child: I Was Always Afraid – Michael Cascio Synopsis: Are you afraid when you go to bed? This book will put good thoughts in your head. Review:

Pursued. Attacked. Rescued. Rose is pursued while applying for jobs at church. A sweet young pastor asks her for dates but her abusive ex-boyfriend always interrupts. Even though she has ended the relationship with him, he continues to try to get her alone and resorts to violence. Even though she is in therapy, re-established a relationship with her father, and has returned to her Planted bible study, Rose feels she has lost too much. Her ex-boyfriend tells people she’s his fiance and beats the young pastor who comes to her defence. How can she get a new job with someone threatening her?

Planted Flowers is a new Christian Suspense series written by Anna K Payne. These six stories follow women who hope to draw closer to God. The trials and dangers they face cement their bonds to each other, restore their relationship with God, and open their hearts to the men in their lives. For the first time, read all six books at once in this action-packed volume with over 700 pages. Read the first chapter of Daisy's book and read short stories based on the Planted Flowers series.